By Irish Pink Adoptions on March 4, 2010
Raising adopted children, Lois Ruskai Melina,
Harper Collins, NY (Amazon), 1998 |
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| Relevance to Ireland |    |
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| It is not too country specific, but you fell the Americanisms. It contributes to the reassuring element of the book, but makes it a bit distant to a more pragmatic European sensibility. |
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| Relevance to pink adoptions | |
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| Very hetero-centric. It is only relevant to the extent that pink families are just like any families, so all that applies to them applies to us. But we strive to find any recognition of our reality. There is only half a page dealing with LGBT parents: 15 negative lines, and 10 positive ones, articulated by a 'however'. |
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| Accessibility | |
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| Practical and reassuring, as it says on the tin. Also, each heading delivers what is promised: actual real life experience and very touching emotional content. I felt like crying at every page as I coudl easily put myself in the situations described. |
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| Rigor | |
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| To feel the professional touch, without having suffer the heaviness of those who know-it-all. It has just enough fluffiness to showcase its seriousness. It also has an extended biography and listing of support material. |
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| Very good and sound advice for most, if you can pass the obvious 'Amercanicity' of it all, including cheap spirituality and the buy-in into the racist predjudice of the american society. <br>A must ready, if you can distance yourself from some of the fluff. Worth reading in any case, it is not dealing with processes but with people. It is very much a brain thinking with it's heart type of book. |
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